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Day: 10 January 2020

More activity expected

Edinburgh office market to pick up after steady year

Brodies Capital Square Edinburgh
Capital Square is currently under way Edinburgh’s office market is expected to pick up after a steady year of activity in 2019, according to property consultants JLL.  Approximately 650,000 sqRead More

Library gifted to R&A

Ex-Rangers chief helps build world’s largest golf book collection

Collector: Alastair Johnston (pic: R&A/Alastair Johnston) Former Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston has helped establish the world’s largest collection of golf books by gifting his extensive library to the R&A inRead More

Transport blueprint

Edinburgh plans car-free city centre over next ten years

Edinburgh tram line
Plan involves extending the tram lines (pic: Terry Murden) Edinburgh city centre will be virtually car-free within the next ten years under plans to reshape the transport network. A blueprintRead More

New funding

£2m for Elasmogen’s shark-inspired drugs treatments

Caroline Barelle
Caroline Barelle: ‘scientific reality’ Drugs development company Elasmogen  has secured £2 million for its work on proteins found in sharks to develop treatments for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis andRead More

Senior promotion

Mathieson to head up insurance at Aberdeen Standard Investments

Aileen Mathieson
Aileeen Mathieson: strategic roles Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has appointed Aileen Mathieson as global head of insurance following the retirement of Stephen Acheson at the end of December following 37Read More

Bank's office plans

Barclays to consolidate into strategic campuses across UK

Barclays-Glasgow
Going up: the Glasgow campus is under way (pic: Terry Murden) Barclays is planning to consolidate its office footprint across the UK into giant hubs in large cities, according toRead More

As I See It

How Barclays is defying the Brexit naysayers

Buchanan Wharf
Barclays' giant new campus in Glasgow is a sign of things to come, writes TERRY MURDEN

Target missed

Wheelhouse attacked after admitting third broadband delay

Paul Wheelhouse
Little progress: Paul Wheelhouse admitted delays (pic: Terry Murden) Scotland’s small firms have accused government ministers of leaving the country in the “digital slow lane” after failing to hit broadbandRead More

Mandate switched

Aberdeen Standard Investments takes over Phoenix fund

Aberdeen Standard Investments golf
ASI is new manager (pic: Terry Murden) Pensions consolidator Phoenix has replaced Architas with Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) to manage one of its biggest mandates. The switch of manager ofRead More

Law

Shoosmiths plunders rivals to bolster Scottish team

Shoosmiths
Helen McBride, Jacqueline Alleyne, Collette Gibson and Fiona Cameron Law firm Shoosmiths  has hired a number of lawyers from rival firms including new partners Kim Pattullo and Fiona Cameron. Ms Pattullo joins fromRead More